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Jetpack is building an onboarding plugin to alter the new WordPress user experience

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2016

Jetpack is working on a plugin called Jetpack Onboarding that alters the default WordPress "Welcome" screen in the dashboard with a step by step onboarding process. Right now there are four steps for setting up a basic site: The repo…

Automattic has purchased a majority stake in Pressable

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2016

BusinessHosting

Automattic has taken over a majority stake in Pressable, the managed WordPress hosting company, with a purchase of Pressable CEO Vid Luther's shares of the company. They were already a significant investor.

Plugin repo and frameworks

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2016

Hosting

There's a newly clarified policy on Make Plugins from Mika Epstein where she says that developer frameworks are no longer going to be approved for the plugin repo. Plugins like CMB2, Advanced Custom Fields and others that may be dependencies of other…

Linode has finally followed up after…

February 24, 2016

Security

Linode has finally followed up after their security brew-ha-ha that you may remember affected WP Engine not long ago. It doesn't say a ton and follows a pretty standard follow-up / PR script, but it's at least some closure for…

Facebook Instant Articles to be available to all publishers in April

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2016

Hosting

There is really only one existing WordPress integration for Facebook Instant Articles. It is from Jack Spurlock, a developer at WIRED. Facebook has a limited spec for supporting Instant Articles, which at a base level can just use RSS, but deeper integrations would…

WordFence is spreading the word about…

February 12, 2016

Security

WordFence is spreading the word about three different plugins with security vulnerabilities they've found exploited in the wild. WooCommerce Store Toolkit (not publicly available, patched, but will need updating) WordPress User Meta Manager (on .org, blind SQL injection vulnerability) WP…

A Canadian court has issued an opinion…

February 9, 2016

Design

A Canadian court has issued an opinion with a vomit inducing description of open source. A problem Chenier saw was that 21st Capital used "open source code" and made changes, sometimes on a weekly basis, to its program code without testing…

Complete coverage should not be a requirement for core inclusion of WordPress REST API endpoints

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2016

BusinessDesign

The WordPress REST API is at a bit of a crossroads. There is a proposal on the table by the core team of four contributors — Ryan McCue, Rachel Baker, Daniel Bachhuber, and Joe Hoyle — to ship endpoints to WordPress core iteratively. There is a pushback on this proposal by WordPress Project Lead and co-founder Matt Mullenweg.

WordPress 4.4.2 is out with a…

February 4, 2016

Security

WordPress 4.4.2 is out with a security and maintenance release. It should be a no-brainer update for everyone (and is probably updated on most of your sites by now, automatically). It affects all versions of WordPress and updates are out…

WordPress at Scale

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2016

Hosting

The team at Pantheon has made a nice resource that doubles as smart marketing for a developer focused hosting product. WordPress at Scale is a website that aims to educate and provide resources to developers wishing to, well, scale WordPress.…

Themezilla acquired by Pixel Union

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2016

BusinessDesign

Pixel Union was originally a theme marketplace for Tumblr, that expanded to BigCommerce, Shopify, and WordPress. The founder of Pixel Union is Andrew Wilkinson, who also started Meta Lab and publishes Designer News. Meta Lab is well known for being the…

Nonces are not a catch-all security…

January 26, 2016

Security

Nonces are not a catch-all security mechanism, and Gennady Kovshenin explains why.

Effective internal critique for projects

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2016

Design

Tanner Christensen is a product designer at Facebook, and while his post describes what he's learned about effectively holding design critique sessions, it's quite applicable to other areas of work. If you are in a team environment, adopting a clear and…

David Hayes has done an excellent…

January 18, 2016

Hosting

David Hayes has done an excellent job giving a lay of the land of the JavaScript world, as it applies to WordPress developers. WP Shout also completed their hosting survey, and the results are out. The sample size is a…

PHP 5.6 support to be extended through 2018

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2016

Security

PHP has voted on a proposal to extend support for PHP 5.6 -- the most recent non-PHP-7 release -- through 2018. The vote is a great step for WordPress, as version 5.6 only has about 12% adoption still. PHP 5.6…

iThemes adding live, incremental backups to BackupBuddy

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2016

BusinessHosting

iThemes has managed and supported BackupBuddy for about as long as any commercial plugin on the market. It's a cornerstone product for them, and it's done very well over the years. With BackupBuddy 7.0, they are adding live, incremental backups…

Jetpack is building an onboarding plugin to alter the new WordPress user experience

Automattic has purchased a majority stake in Pressable

Plugin repo and frameworks

Linode has finally followed up after…

Facebook Instant Articles to be available to all publishers in April

WordFence is spreading the word about…

A Canadian court has issued an opinion…

Complete coverage should not be a requirement for core inclusion of WordPress REST API endpoints

WordPress 4.4.2 is out with a…

WordPress at Scale

Themezilla acquired by Pixel Union

Nonces are not a catch-all security…

Effective internal critique for projects

David Hayes has done an excellent…

PHP 5.6 support to be extended through 2018

iThemes adding live, incremental backups to BackupBuddy

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